On Flatwork: The Xs and Os of Preferred Movement
At Pawsitive Vybe we look at the dog’s directional movement and direction of play through a clockwise and counter clockwise lens. It’s a bit “brainful”,…
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On Engagement in Dog Sports and Dog Training
Engagement™ is a huge buzzword these days in the dog training world. I think it’s taken over Rear End Awareness™” and Core Strength™. We’ve been…
Epic Flatwork is Flow
Giz Gaz Warmup A Giz Gaz is kind of the anti-Zig Zag. The Zig Zag features a sharp, aggressive reorientation to the disc, most always…
Weak Flip
A Weak Flip is a purposeful reorienting, cartwheeling, or flipping action in pursuit of a flying disc to your dog’s weak side. Dogs have a…
Strong Flip
A Strong Flip is a purposeful reorienting, cartwheeling, or flipping action in pursuit of a flying disc to the dog’s strong flipping side. Dogs have…
Bite as Cookie
Bite as Cookie is a metaphor for reinforcement with a disc or a bite on a toy. Handler’s often do not treat the disc or…
You Can’t Leverage a Cookie You Didn’t Offer
A situation that comes up quite frequently in the game of disc, and also in dog training in general is when the dog has hit…
Treat to Toy Transfer with Layla
Here are Layla and Ron working on Transferring from Treats to Toys with Set Up Moves and some Flatwork. Layla is a serious car chaser…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 2
The last two installments of this series outlined the behavioral strings and knots metaphor and examined 5 ‘strings’ of behavior and their relationship to behavioral…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 1
Yesterday’s piece was about how solving behavioral problems is kind of like untangling knots. Today I’m going to talk about the strings that make up…
Go Do Dog Stuff: Seven Simple Ideas for Effective Dismissal
What Is Dismissal? Dismissal is the opposite of Attention. Practically speaking, it means that the handler is not available at this time. It does not…
Disc Dog Routine Building with Cookies
Work on building a routine with cookies. Whether it's drive reduction for clear thinking or creating a walk through type situation for routines...
Bite as Cookie
When a Bite is offered as a cookie the dog has earned the right to attempt to Bite that object. It's a very empowering experience. The dog learns that…
Treat to Toy Transfer with Layla
The main mechanics for this skill is activating the second target and making the first target disappear. That popping lure with the second hand combin…
Humor, Repetition and the Classical Condition
Yesterday, I did a piece on Reframing the Dog’s Understanding of the Door. A couple of the comments pointed out some gaps in the one…
Reframing Canine Understanding : Doorways
Change your dog's understanding of doorways from 'staging area' to 'destination'. This little reframe save you and your dog a lot of grief at the door…
Judging Canine Athleticism
I recently got a question from a friend about judging the ‘Canine Athleticism’ category that we find in almost all of the organization’s judging…
Hops in Rockford #1
Trainer’s Notes: Freeshaped Down earns cookies in Rear of Crate. – 30 secondsHops’ down made cookies happen in the rear of the crate presenting competing…